By Shauna Sherard
I think this is what they call a teachable moment. Or a learning moment. Perhaps a moment to reflect, or even all of the above.
Last week we posted a photo--the wrong photo--of a large steelhead being held out of water.
It was a repost of a story about fishing being on fire on... [ READ MORE... ]

By Jeff Barney and Jerry Schoen
There are a lot of good reasons to pay attention to what’s hatching. No. 1, of course, is to match the hatch and hopefully catch more fish.
There are also the little things we pick up, almost without noticing, as we watch newly emerged specimens of different species... [ READ MORE... ]

Editor's note: This essay is one of the five finalists in the Be Steelheaded Essay contest. It comes to us from Dylan Tomine a Patagonia Fly Fishing Ambassador, recovering sink-tip addict, and the author of Closer to the Ground: An Outdoor Family’s Year on the Water, in the Woods and at the Table.... [ READ MORE... ]

Atlantic salmon art courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
By John Braico
Over the past 20 years I’ve been fishing for Atlantic salmon in Canada, at times enjoying spectacular angling in a northern wilderness setting.
Only once did I fish the Maritimes, specifically the storied... [ READ MORE... ]

Video of Hank Patterson&#039;s Reel Montana Announcement
This just in...
Hank Patterson's Reel Montana Adventure debuts next Friday, Nov. 7, at the Wilma Theater in Missoula, Mont., and if you're a TU member, you can buy a ticket to the show on Saturday, Nov. 1 for only $8. Normal asking... [ READ MORE... ]

The highlight of the first full day of the ICAST/IFTD show every year is the The Drake Magazine's Fly Fishing Film Awards.
"It's the Academy Awards of the fly fishing industry," explains Tom Sadler, the president of the Massanutten TU chapter in Harrisonburg, Va., and a guide at Mossy Creek Fly... [ READ MORE... ]

On the opening day of Trout Season in Pennsylvania volunteers from the Knights of Columbus, Stroud Township, and the Brodhead Chapter of Trout Unlimited organized the annual Children's Fishing Contest on the pond at Brodhead Creek Park in Stroudsburg Pennsylvania.
Volunteers organized the prizes,... [ READ MORE... ]

On Wednesday April 9th 2014 leaders from the Brodhead Chapter of Trout Unlimited #289 spent the day with PAFBC Executive Director John Arway on a tour of the Poconos public fishing areas. The tour started on the Pocono Creek in Tannersville, PA in an area that the Chapter is planning to do instream... [ READ MORE... ]

Emilee is 15. She's cautious and skeptical. Thoughtful and meticulous (when she wants to be, her mother tells me).
A couple months ago, I noticed her making some intricate "friendship bracelets" with lengths of craft yarn--the attention to detail was obvious. I immediately envisioned her sitting... [ READ MORE... ]

Group shot of NJ TU chapter members who participated in the second March Madness Fly Tying event held on Saturday, 3/22/14 in Cranford, NJ. Hosted by the Rahway River chapter, over 40 TU members honed their tying skills and donated flies to Project Healing Waters, Casting For Recovery and TU... [ READ MORE... ]